Information About

Mount Witherspoon

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Location

61 ° 23' 43.001" N,
147 ° 12' 5" W

Region

Valdez-Cordova (CA)

Nearest City

Eureka

Elevation

11857 ft (3614.01 m)

Mount Witherspoon in Detail.

About

in Dora Keen Range, at head of Columbia Glacier, 36 mi. NW of Valdez, Chugach Mts.

History

Named in 1928 by U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) for David C. Witherspoon, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) topographer, "who at the time of his retirement in 1921 had mapped a greater area of Alaska than any other man."

Topo Maps

Anchorage (1951), Anchorage (1951), Anchorage (1951), Anchorage (1951), Anchorage B-1 (1960), Anchorage B-1 (1960), Anchorage (1962), Anchorage (1962), Anchorage (1962), Anchorage (1962), Anchorage (1962), Anchorage (1962), Anchorage (1979), Anchorage B-1 NW (2013),

Places Near Mount Witherspoon

Glaciers:

Meares Glacier, Second Branch Columbia Glacier (not official),

Mountains:

Aspero Peak, Blackcliff Mountain, Mount Cardozo, Columbia Peak, Mount Defiant, Mount Edison, Mount Einstein, Mount Elusive, Mount Fafnir, Finland Peak, Mount Gilbert Lewis, Mount Glenn, Mount Langmuir, Mount Michelson, Norway Peak, Mount Siegfried, Sweden Peak, Mount Thor, Mount Valhalla, Mount Witherspoon,

Peaks:

Camels Hump,